Maladaptive remodelling of structurally significant collagen fibres in the arterial wall is believed to play a critical role in the development and progression of degenerative arterial disease. A greater understanding of ...

Repair is a ubiquitous process in nature, and it is one of the many features of biological materials that humans are constantly attempting to recreate. Though the process of repair has been studied in mammals, very little ...

Seeing a speaker’s face as he or she talks can greatly help in understanding what the speaker is saying, especially in adverse hearing conditions – a principle known as inverse effectiveness. This is because the speaker’s ...

Prediction of fatigue failure in engineering artefects is becoming increasingly important as
we enter the third millennium; more catastrophic fatigue failures will occur as engineers push
the limits of design even further ...

The growing demand for portable applications such as cellular phones, portable digital
assistants (PDAs) and notebooks has resulted in a requirement for integrated circuits (ICs)
which consume less power while delivering ...